Gid-dap, you blackguard!' says he to the horse.
"'Hold on, just a minute,' I hollers, runnin' after him.

'I don't want to be curious nor nosey, you understand, but seems 's if it might help me to be on time if I knew where your launch was goin' to be and what your name was.' "He pulled up then.

'Humph!' he says, 'if you don't know my name and more about my private affairs than I do myself, you're the only one in this county that don't.

My name's Williams, and I live in what you folks call the Lathrop place over here toward Trumet.

The launch is at my landin' down in front of the house.' "He drove off then and I walked along thinkin'.